Tropical depression named Batsirai, it’s heading our way

The tropical depression which was evolving far to the East-North-East of our region has intensified into a Moderate Tropical Storm. It has been named BATSIRAI by the Mauritius Meteorological Services.

Batsirai was centered around the point 16.4 degrees South in latitude 84.1 degrees East in longitude, about 2785 km far to the East-North-East of Mauritius.

It is moving in a general West-South-Westerly direction at about 25 km/h.

In a communique issued on Thursday, the Met Office said track forecast models are “in general agreement that the system will maintain a west-south-west trajectory until early next week and will approach close to Rodrigues.”

The weather at Rodrigues is expected to become very windy with scattered showers as from Sunday 30 January 2022.